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Following is the programme for this evening's symphony in Music Hall: Gradener, overture (Lustspiel), first time; G. F. Hendel, Oboe Concerto; H. Berlioz, three movements from symphony "Romeo and Jullet;" F. Mendelsohn, overture (Ruy Blas). The soloist will be Monsieur A. Sauter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 2/18/1888 | See Source »

...pathetic or humerous purport, would come out in quite a human way. The most striking general failing was a tendency to make too many pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Julius Caesar. | 5/29/1885 | See Source »

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